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Fabio Bartolomei

Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles

Cover: Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles - Fabio Bartolomei

Fabio Bartolomei

Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles

2012, pp. 288, Paperback
ISBN: 9781609450830
Translated by: Antony Shugaar
Region: Italy
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$ 16.00

The book

Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is their abject mediocrity. Yet, mediocrity being the mother of outrageous invention, they embark on a project that would be too ambitious in scope for any single one of them, let alone all three together. They decide to flee the city and to open a rustic holiday farmhouse in the Italian countryside outside Naples. Things would have been challenging enough for these three unlikely entrepreneurs, but when a local mobster arrives and demands they pay him protection money things go from bad to worse. Now their ordinary (if wrongheaded) attempt to run a small business in an area that organized crime syndicates consider their own becomes a quixotic act of defiance.

The author

Fabio Bartolomei
Fabio Bartolomei works in advertising and lives in Rome. Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles is his first novel.

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